PROVERBS 25:14
Pro 25:14 Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
This verse stood out to me because in Sunday school we are studying the motivational gifts I was curious if this was the same but on the opposite side of things. It is amazing no matter how many times we read this book verses like this one just pop out like I had never seen it before that’s why I love this book never gets old. We see this all the time just watch some of the preachers on TV. They boast how they can heal, a smack to the forehead and presto you can walk again, you know, never read about JESUS walking up smacking them on their forehead and say “be healed”. I do believe JESUS heals not saying He doesn’t. JESUS just didn’t even have to speak and they were healed. I think the verse is saying these false men are all show and no JESUS! Just mail the money and you shall be healed, get real. Don’t remember that in the scripture.
2Co 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
2Co 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
2Co 11:15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
2Co 11:16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
2Co 11:17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
Just like in the summer off in the distance you see that storm coming and it finally gets to you hoping it will cool off and nothing happens the same with these false men. The only difference is that the people under these guys end up in hell.
2Pe 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
2Pe 2:16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
2Pe 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
2Pe 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
2Pe 2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
How messed up do you have to be that GOD sends a donkey to rebuke you. The other thing is GOD doesn’t need us He could have donkeys get the gospel out. We need to see that and see what a privilege we have here to worship JESUS and have the fellowship that we do. Sometimes we take that for granite and act like we have to. We don’t have to do anything, if we are truly sold out to JESUS we should want to worship, study, and read about JESUS, not have some check list of have to dos. THANK YOU GOD for this awesome privilege we have today.